AOHERONTIIN^. 5 



PROTOPARCE ORIENTALIS (Plate 75, Fig. 1, 1 a—e, larva). 



Protoparce orientalis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 609, pi. 91, fig. 16, 17. 

 Sphinx Convolvuli, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mas. E. I. C. i. p. 237, pi. 9, fig. 3, 3a. 



Forewing grey, blackisli-speckled ; crossed by two subbasal, two antemedial 

 zigzag grey-bordered black streaks, and two postmedial, acutely and lengthened 

 pointed, zigzag lines ; some black oblique streaks on tbe costa, and a zigzag line 

 below tlie apex ; some white-bordered circular black marks along exterior margin, 

 and an indistinct dusky fascia obliquely across middle of the wing traversed by two 

 distinct black lines between the median veins ; a grey and black-speckled spot at end 

 of the cell : hindwing brownish-grey, suffused with pale blue basally ; crossed by a 

 subbasal, two medial, and a submarginal blackish sinuous band. Female with all the 

 markings paler. Thorax grey, with black streaks and circular spots on hind part ; 

 abdomen purplish-red, with a broad grey dorsal band, black transverse bands with 

 white segmental borders ; tarsi with brown bands. 



Expanse 3-^ to 3| inches. 



Larva {Young). Pale green, with indistinct darker oblique stripes. {Another 

 Stage.) Immediately after change of skin — darker spotted green, oblique stripes 

 paler, but more distinct ; horn yellowish ; head with green bands ; spiracles black 

 ringed. Becomes darker coloured in seven or eight hours after. {Further Stage.) 

 Brighter green ; oblique stripes very distinct and blackish-bordered anteriorly ; 

 spiracles red centred. {Adult.) Before changing to pupa — pale olivaceous-ochreous, 

 whitish beneath ; transversely dotted with brown ; spiracles black ; head with 

 blackish bands. Pupa dusky red, with black spiracles ; proboscis case exserted. 

 Feeds on Galonyction speciosiom, Pharhitis nil, Argyreia cymosa, Ipomaa polyanthes, 

 Phaseolus, &o. 



Subfamily ACHERONTIIN^. 



Imago clumsy ; legs, antennae, and proboscis thick, the latter very short ; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen short and broad. 



Larva thick, clumsy, Sjjhinx-like, but with the horn always more or less 

 recurved at the tip and tuberculated or granulose. {Butler.) 



Genus AGHERONTIA. 



Acherontia, Ocbsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 44 (1816) ; Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 139 



(1818-25) ; Boisd. Spec. Gren. Lep. Het. p. 4 (1874). 

 Manduca, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 1 (1806). 

 Srachyglossa, Latreille ; BoisJuval (1829). 



Forewing long, slightly arched towards the apex ; exterior margin oblique, even, 

 sUghtly convex ; first subcostal vein . at nearly one-half and second at one-twelfth 



